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From: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] clone: use --progress to mean -v
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:27:05 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <be6fef0d0912261927p4aff3ecet5cc26bd6dfc7e1c2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0912260952020.4985@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

Hi,

On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Dec 2009, Tay Ray Chuan wrote:
>
>> This series makes git-clone follow the "argument convention" of
>> git-pack-objects, where the option --progress is used to force reporting
>> of reporting. This was previously done with -v/--verbose.
>
> No objections from my side, although you might want to advertise more that
> this is a change in behavior.  (Meaning in the release notes)

Indeed, -v/--verbose to force reporting of progress was done sometime
last year (Thu Oct 9 2008) so there may be scripts/applications
dependent on this option.

Junio, do you have any advice on this front?

>> PS. If someone can enlighten me on the proper noun for the git
>>     executable (I said "main git"), I would be very thankful.
>
> I call it the "Git wrapper", although less polite words exist, too.

I see. Thanks!

-- 
Cheers,
Ray Chuan

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-27  3:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-09  4:54 [PATCH/RFC] Add progress options Brent Goodrick
2009-12-25 17:12 ` [PATCH 0/4] clone: use --progress to mean -v Tay Ray Chuan
2009-12-25 17:12   ` [PATCH 1/4] check stderr with isatty() instead of stdout when deciding to show progress Tay Ray Chuan
2009-12-25 17:12     ` [PATCH 2/4] git-clone.txt: reword description of progress behaviour Tay Ray Chuan
2009-12-25 17:12       ` [PATCH 3/4] clone: set transport->verbose when -v/--verbose is used Tay Ray Chuan
2009-12-25 17:12         ` [PATCH 4/4] clone: use --progress to force progress reporting Tay Ray Chuan
2009-12-27  1:20           ` Miklos Vajna
2009-12-27  3:22             ` Tay Ray Chuan
2009-12-26  8:53   ` [PATCH 0/4] clone: use --progress to mean -v Johannes Schindelin
2009-12-27  3:27     ` Tay Ray Chuan [this message]
2009-12-29  1:30       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-12-29  3:06         ` Tay Ray Chuan

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